Embroidered Uniform Guard: I Can Plunder Talents

"That last punch, I was already using about seventy percent of my strength. This bronze bell’s defensive power, really isn’t faking anything!"

Though it still wasn’t my full strength.

But, thanks to all those accumulated talent entries, Ye Liuyun’s power was far greater than most martial artists in the same realm.

Even with just seventy percent, he was easily matching the output of many Grandmaster Realm martial artists.

Yet, even so—

He only made the bronze bell wobble a bit. Nothing else happened, the bell’s surface was perfectly intact, not even a hairline crack could be seen.

"According to Xie Fenghao, this bronze bell can supposedly be activated by some kind of special inner strength, but after all these tests, it still doesn’t show any unique effect!"

As for those stories in old novels—

About how special Spiritual Artifacts only work after you drip blood to claim them? Ye Liuyun didn’t waste a second even thinking about that kind of crap.

If dripping blood actually did anything, then when the bell was first found by the Xie family, someone would’ve already tried it.

No way they’d wait for Ye Liuyun.

"Special inner strength, huh?"

Thinking about this, Ye Liuyun instinctively connected it to his own special physique. Aside from a few cultivation techniques that came with inherent elements, most techniques are element-less, and can pair with whatever martial skill you like.

But a martial artist with a unique physique generally has their own attribute innately, so any martial art they cultivate gets converted into their specific attribute.

Just like Xie Fenghao with his Poisonous Calamity Body.

His inner strength is poison-element.

"Guess I’ll give it a try!"

No harm in testing, after all.

Thinking this, Ye Liuyun circulated his inner strength and placed his hand on the bronze bell.

Sure enough—

"Bzzzzzz!"

The moment Ye Liuyun acted, the ’silent’ bronze bell suddenly started humming, the bell itself began to shake.

If it weren’t for the Silence Skill, Ye Liuyun wouldn’t dare try any of this here.

No matter how friendly the Xie family acted— Xie Fenghao practically had ’let’s be friends’ written all over his face—at the end of the day, it wasn’t Ye Liuyun’s turf. If something unexpected happened, you think the Xie family wouldn’t get any funny ideas?

Unlike Xie Fenghao, whose physique only granted a single poison attribute—

Ye Liuyun had more than one physique talent, and quite a collection of cultivation technique attributes. Just have to try them one by one.

,,,

Half an hour later—

Ye Liuyun had tried every inner strength attribute he possessed; results were basically the same.

At first,

The bronze bell would respond—kept wobbling—almost as if it were ’recognizing’ a master.

But in the end, it always calmed down and went quiet again.

It worked, but also... kind of didn’t?

Either way, the end result never really changed.

Ye Liuyun withdrew his hand again. He didn’t lack inner strength, but why waste energy on something pointless?

"So... why is that?"

Not particularly disappointed, either.

After all, if it’d been that easy to figure out—

The Xie family would already know the bronze bell’s secret. If it was really that valuable, it definitely wouldn’t be left for Ye Liuyun to claim.

Ye Liuyun never looked down on others.

Anyone who assumes everyone else is an idiot—is the idiot.

Unwilling to let it go, Ye Liuyun tried a few more times.

Thinking, if he couldn’t figure it out here, he’d just take it back to Great Qian and test it at home. Plenty of time to mess with it later.

Eventually he’d figure out the bell’s secret.

Besides, even if he couldn’t crack it for the rest of his life, Ye Liuyun wouldn’t leave it lying around out here.

If I can’t have it, then no one else will, either.

Ye Liuyun, stubborn as ever—

Kept at it for over an hour. If his inner strength weren’t so thick, he really would’ve run dry by now.

"Bzzz!"

Who knows if all this inner strength testing just annoyed the bronze bell—

With a sudden hum of inner strength—

A mysterious force of backlash slammed into Ye Liuyun, and before he realized it, he was forced a few steps backward by the shock.

"???"

But because of this, Ye Liuyun wasn’t disappointed. Actually, he was excited.

"Wait, did I just get rejected?"

Spiritual Artifacts have spirit; the more extraordinary, the more personality they have.

Honestly, plenty of people know this. But usually, a Spiritual Artifact’s spirit only shows up as compatibility.

High compatibility, high efficiency; low compatibility, and even a powerful artifact is wasted.

Something like this bronze bell, openly showing its mood—Ye Liuyun had read hundreds of Embroidered Uniform Guard files, but this was a first.

Not that it’s useless.

Just... his inner strength got rejected. Too basic?

"This picky?"

Ye Liuyun wouldn’t say his inner strength was the best in the world, but at least it made the shortlist of top-tier practitioners.

Even so, the bell ’rejected’ him.

For a moment, Ye Liuyun didn’t even know what to say.

But now that he understood the bronze bell had emotions, things got easier.

If his inner strength could get rejected, then only something even higher-level would work.

"Starfall Immortal Scripture!"

Narrowing his eyes, Ye Liuyun immediately realized something.